Liz Wellbeloved is assistant director of UVA’s longest-running study abroad program. A first-generation student, she has helped thousands of students explore options in Valencia.
Gregory Perryman has been selected as a Fellow and will conduct a comparative study of social justice leadership in the United States, South Africa and Ireland.
Join us for a panel discussion and reception with past UVA Fulbright recipients on February 23, at 5:00 pm in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Auditorium.
The U.S. Department of State has named the University of Virginia as a Fulbright U.S. Student Program Top Producing Institution for the 2022-23 academic year.
A record seventeen Education Abroad Programs took the University of Virginia students to places as distant and diverse as Argentina, Australia, Jordan, Kenya, and Vietnam, among other places for the first time since the pandemic disrupted travel in 2020.
Reese Hertel learned to appreciate nature while growing up in Charlottesville. Now, he seeks to bring his passion for the environmental global, interning in Guatemala and studying in Valencia to prepare himself for career as a Latin America-focused environmental engineer.
Two global studies students - Abeba Amenshowa, majoring in global development studies and foreign affairs and Leigh Mante, majoring in global public health and mathematical statistics have been awarded the Payne Fellowship and will pursue foreign service careers in USAID.
The East Asian Studies study abroad page contains information about programs in Chinese Language Studies and Japanese Studies, including UVA-in-Shanghai, as well as links to language study programs in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Tibetan.
The European Studies M.A. program has existing exchanges with schools in France, Sweden, Germany, and Northern Ireland and provides the option to arrange exchanges with other European sites.
The French Department offers study abroad programs in Lyon (summer & semester) and Paris (J-term) and also have information available about other opportunities for students for French.
Erica Stephens is getting ready to graduate next month with major in Cognitive Science and a minor in Health & Wellbeing from University of Virginia’s College of Arts & Science.
As we launch the 2021 spring semester this month amid continuing challenges from the COVID-19 threat, the contours of the post-pandemic world are emerging. Steadily accelerated vaccinations, improved compliance with public health measures, strides in treating the disease, and the resilience of our students and faculty in mastering new ways to learn and research are creating conditions to spring back even stronger after the pandemic.
UVA is in the top 12 U.S. universities for short-term study abroad programs, according to the annual Open Doors report released Nov. 16 by the Institute of International Education, a New York-based nonprofit.
Americans bid a sad farewell to legendary jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg in recent weeks, simultaneously celebrating her extraordinary contributions over 50 years to advancing gender equality and other important human rights issues in the United States. Justice Ginsburg’s life affirmed what all of us in international education have long known to be an essential truth: that study and research abroad transform and enrich individual lives, and more broadly, the character of nations.
This month as epidemiologists study the potential threat from the omicron variant, pandemic hospitalizations rise with the onset of winter, and travel requirements tighten again, Global Affairs is pleased to celebrate a small but important victory over COVID.
Despite losing spring and summer participation due to the pandemic, the University of Virginia remained among the top 25 doctoral-granting institutions in the number of its students who study abroad, according to the annual Open Doors report released Nov.
One of most serious impacts of COVID-19 on UVA’s mission last year was the sudden cancellation of every one of our study abroad programs. Between January and March of 2020, we scrambled to support the return of over 400 of our students, researchers, and faculty back to the United
